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Lakshmi and her husband, Vishnu.

TALKS

'Future Directions for Indo Caribbean Culture: Values and Ethical Challenges in managing Indian Culture in a Westernized Society'

Lakshmi Persaud,

July 11-13, 2014,

National Council of Indian Culture International Diaspora Conference,

National Council of Indian Culture,

Trinidad and Tobago.

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Lakshmi Persaud's address in acceptance of the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters (DLitt) conferred upon her by the University of the West Indies. 

Friday 25th October 2013,

St Augustine campus, UWI.

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'Gender issues in Education, Culture and Health'

Lakshmi Persaud,

The Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) Conference,
26th-27th October 2010, London.

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'Her Masterpiece, Jean Rhys and the Caribbean Island of Dominica'

Lakshmi Persaud,

Conference of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars,
April 20-24, 2010.

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'Indo-Caribbean Cultural Heritage: Help or Hindrance'

Lakshmi Persaud,

University of Warwick

Conference to Celebrate the 170th Anniversary of the arrival of East Indians in the Caribbean,

26th-27th June 2008.

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'Hinduism on the wings of Liberty and Vitality'

Lakshmi Persaud,

Guest Speaker at the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Hindu Women Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago,

22 September 2007.

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'The Songs of Multiculturalism'

Lakshmi Persaud,

COSTATT,

3 October 2006.

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'Creativity, Feminism and the Indian Sensibility'

An extract from an interview with Lakshmi Persaud

by Dr Stuti Prasad, Lecturer,

Patna University, Bihar, India.

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'Freedom has a thousand charms to show'

Lakshmi Persaud talks about her influences,

Warwick University,

5 May 2005.

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'Lanterns in the Dark'
Lakshmi Persaud talks to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)

Forced Marriage Event,

16 February 2005.

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'The Beauty and Strength of the Human Spirit'
Talk to mark the 159th anniversary of the first Indians' arrival in Trinidad, 30 May 2004.

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'The Dance of Light and Shadow' 

Lakshmi Persaud talks about themes in her work.

Black History Month, public lecture, the Metropolitan University, London, 22 Oct, 2003.

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